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Building a Quadcopter with Arduino

By : Vasilis Tzivaras
Book Image

Building a Quadcopter with Arduino

By: Vasilis Tzivaras

Overview of this book

<p>Quadcopters, also known as quadrotors, are gaining more and more popularity in today's world. With the help of these devices, anyone can have an “eye in the sky” and can monitor any place at any time. You can capture photographs and once a while and perform automated tasks. In this book, you will be informed about all the basic modules and electronics needed to fly a simple quadcopter. You’ll delve deep to create a fully-functional quadcopter quickly with the help of Arduino boards. Through this book, you’ll develop the skills needed to build a DIY drone that can capture pictures and record videos.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building a Quadcopter with Arduino
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Location and environment


If you have never flown a copter before, you may not understand the importance of the flight location. A good location provides you with the following:

  • A better view of your vehicle

  • Accurate and stable control

  • Less signal interference

  • More emergency plans

If you think about it, all of the preceding aspects are crucial. The more bullet points that are missing, the more possibility you have of ending up with a crash.

In the following image, you can see that there are no people and objects that can harm or make our flight difficult. This is an excellent location to test your quadcopter and to also learn how to fly:

On the other hand, crowded places, as shown in the following image, will make your flight difficult and insecure and increase the possibilities of a crash or injury:

Do not fly over crowded places. Even if your craft costs 1,000 dollars and you are a pro, a craft is a machine. It consists of hardware. As your computer...